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from 2007 – 2023

Yang Han
  • Thesis:
  • Committee: Jun Ma, Ivan Petkov, Robert Tries
  • Initial Position: Associate at Analysis Group, Boston, MA

Farzaneh Nekui

  • Thesis:
  • Committee: James Dana, Imke Reimers, John Kwoka
  • Initial Position: Facebook
  • Andrew Kearns

  • Thesis:
  • Committee: James Dana, Imke Reimers, John Kwoka
  • Initial Position: Federal Trade Commission
Arvind Sharma
  • Thesis:
  • Committee: James Dana, Imke Reimers, Robert Triest
  • Initial Position: Boston College

Urbashee Paul
  • Thesis:
  • Committee: Alicia Sasser Modestino, Robest Triest, Andrew Change (FRB Boston)
  • Initial Position: Associate at Analysis Group, Boston, MA

Yunus Cem Yılmaz

Jiapei Guo

Wenting Liao

  • Thesis: Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics and Finance
  • Committee: Jun Ma (chair), Ivan Petkov, Robert Triest, Professor Chang-Jin Kim (University of Washington)
  • Initial Position: Assistant Professor at Renmin University, Beijing, China

Tuan Nguyen

  • Thesis: Essays in Marketing and Applied Microeconomics
  • Committee: James Dana (chair), Imke Reimers, Gustavo Vicentini
  • Initial Position: Risk Management Analyst at Populus Financial Group, Irving, TX
  • Current Position: Economist at RSM US, Chicago, IL
Richeng Piao

Carlos Casso Dominguez

Shuang Wang

Joanna Fister

Richard Paulsen

  • Thesis: Three Essays in Productivity and Earnings
  • Committee: Mindy Marks (chair), Neil Alper, Alicia Sasser Modestino
  • Initial Position: Lecturer of Economics at Department of Economics in University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor of Economics at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg, PA
Ngoc (Halli) Ngo

Rachel Sederberg

  • Thesis: Three Essays in Labor Economics
  • Committee: William Dickens (chair), Robert Triest, Alicia Sasser Modestino
  • Initial Position: Visiting Assistant Professor at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME.
  • Current Position: Senior Economist and Research Lead at Emsi Burning Glass, Boston, MA

Hanchun Zhang

He Wang

Mark Gooley

Nehan Naim

Pukar KC

Jiming Tian

Pinshuo Wang

  • Thesis: Essays in Empirical Labor Economics
  • Committee: Alicia Sasser Modestino, William Dickens, Mindy Marks
  • Initial Position: Economist at Amazon, Seattle, WA
  • Current Position: Manager, Senior Economist at Amazon, Seattle, WA
Birzhan B. Batkeyev
  • Thesis: Three Essays in Applied Economics
  • Committee: John Kwoka (chair), Kamran Dadkhah, James Dana
  • Initial Position: Assistant Professor at Kazakh-British Technical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Jihoon Lee

Xiaolin (Liz) Shi
  • Thesis: Three Essays on Health, Retirement and Social Policy
  • Committee: William Dickens, Bilge Erten, Gustavo Vicentini
  • Initial Position: Teaching Professor at Queens College in CUNY, Queens, NY
  • Current Position: Assistant Teaching Professor in Economics at Northeastern University, Boston, MA

Abdullah Tırgıl

  • Thesis: Three Empirical Essays on Turkish Health Care System
  • Committee: William Dickens, Bilge Erten, Catalina Herrera Almanza
  • Initial Position: Assistant Professor of Economics at Department of Public Finance in Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Ankara, Turkey
  • Initial Position: Deputy Head of Economics Department at Department of Public Finance in Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Ankara, Turkey

Monica Ortiz Esquinca

Aysun Hızıroğlu Aygün

Lihua Han

  • Thesis: Three Essays on Trust, Geography and Price in Online Market
  • Committee: James Dana (chair), Imke Reimers, Gustavo Vicentini, Zhongmin Wang
  • Initial Position: Senior Associate, Acquisition Modelling at Discover Financial Services, Chicago, IL
  • Current Position: Manager, Card Acquisition Risk Modelling at Discover Financial Services, Chicago, IL

Thomas PlaHovinsak

Michael J. Brisson

  • Thesis: Three Empirical Essays in Labor Economics
  • Committee: William Dickens, Neil Alper, Gregory Wassall
  • Initial Position: Economist at Moody’s Analytics, West Chester, PA
  • Current Position: Associate Director/Senior Economist at Moody’s Analytics, West Chester, PA

Chengyan Gu

Shaun Patrick O’Brien

  • Thesis: Three Essays on Labor Economics
  • Committee: William Dickens, Neil Alper, Osborne Jackson
  • Initial Position: Economist at San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco, CA

Tuvshintulga Bold

Laura Wholley-Olive

Rand Ghayad

  • Thesis: Long-term Unemployment in the Great Recession
  • Committee: William Dickens (chair), Hugh Courtney, Maria Luengo-Prado, Robert Triest
  • Initial Position: Economic Expert at Brattle Group, Cambridge, MA
  • Current Position:Head of Economics & Global Labor Markets at LinkedIn
Xiaoting (Maggie) Hu
  • Thesis: Three Empirical Essays in Industrial Organization
  • Committee: James Dana (chair), John Kwoka, Zhongmin Wang
  • Initial Position: Quantitative Research Analyst at State Street Global Advisors, Boston, MA
  • Current Position: Senior Quantitative Analyst at Windhaven Investment Management, Boston, MA
Sean Isakower

Irena Vasileva Tsvetkova

  • Thesis: Consequences of Biotech Innovation in Crop Seed
  • Committee: James Dana (chair), John Kwoka, Kyle Stiegert, Gustavo Vicentini
  • Initial Position: Senior Associate at Charles River Associates, Boston, MA
  • Current Position: Associate at Analysis Group, Boston, MA

Amarita Natt

Zhi Su
  • Thesis: Three Essays in Labor Economics
  • Committee: William Dickens, Neil Alper, Andrew Sum
  • Initial Position: Assistant Professor at Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, China

Ceren Ertan Yörük

Man (Mandy) Jia

Kamen P. Madjarov

Tess Forsell Hubbard

Vladlena Sabodash

Evgenia Shumilkina

Daniel J. Greenfield

Renee Michelle Duplantis

Andrea Germiniasi
Megan Gay

Sanem Sergici